The 140-seat MD-80s will be arriving to Roswell throughout the day, though they’ll be coming in at a clip of about one every five minutes during an 85-minute window starting at 11:20 a.m. The average age of the 20 retiring jets is 28 years old, according to FlightRadar24, which is encouraging its users to track the retirement flights. The three others were inherited by American via its acquisition of TWA. Of the 20 planes headed to the New Mexico desert on Tuesday, 17 were originally delivered to American Airlines. The planes are all being sent to the aircraft “boneyard” in Roswell, N.M., as part of what American is calling “one of the largest single-day aircraft retirements in airline history.” View Gallery: Behind the scenes at New Mexico's 'airline boneyard'Īmerican Airlines is retiring 20 of its MD-80 jets Tuesday as the carrier pushes ahead with its phaseout of the aging aircraft model.
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